Spent our second day in Oslo, the capital of Norway. First we went to the national Museum of Norway where we had a tour of the highlights. That included an ancient tapestry from around 1100 AD which was found unfazed below a carpet which was being replaced in someone’s home. What a find! Then we saw the queen’s wardrobe dresses, followed by some of the major paintings of Norwegian artists culminating in “ The Scream” by Edvard Munch in which he expressed his anxiety over realizing the interconnection of everything in the universe. Upon checking the daily news I was allowed by the guard to give my own impression of The Scream. 🤣 After the museum we went to the ski jump used in the Olympics where we had a great view over Oslo. Then we went to a museum island that had a museum dedicated to artic explorers specifically Amundsen who took the ship Fram close to the North Pole where it froze in place and then they hiked the rest of the way to the pole and back to the ship waited for the Spring thaw and sailed back to Norway. Quite an adventure story! There was also a museum dedicated to, and containing the Kon Tiki boat which was a great adventure trying to prove that Polynesia could have been settled by peoples from South America. That museum also contained the boat “Ra” which was built from papyrus reeds and was used in an attempt to show peoples from the Middle East could have traveled to far distant shores, I think in the far east? Need too research that one more as at that point I was in information overload with a severe case of “museumitis”. Back at the hotel we walked to a brew pub for dinner. We really are impressed with Oslo and would like to return someday for more.
Scandinavia 2026 
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